Flying Car (1949)

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Not really sure why this one didn’t come off and make it to mass market really as it seems to work just fine in this video. Basically this was a car that had room for two people and turned into a plane when you unpulled its wings from the top of it. It could go at 150mph on land and 200mph in the air, although I guess that isn’t that fast for a plane and it might be hard to learn how to become a pilot I can’t see any other real reason why these don’t populate the world now!? Except maybe for the possibility of carless flyers running out of fuel and dying.

There’s also mention of a submarine that climbs up trees in the video that I’m just dying to find out more about.